Category: Environment

Cloud-seeding in California has conspiracy theorists up in arms–here’s why

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Cloud-seeding in California has conspiracy theorists up in arms–here’s why
Some people are questioning the motives of government bringing back an old cloud-seeding program in California–here’s what has them so nervous. The term “conspiracy theorist” has such an ugly ring. It is a cheap way to dismiss out of hand not only a person’s particular beliefs about a particular subject, but also to render anything else that they might say as somehow beneath contempt, certainly beneath response.… Read the rest

There’s a new foe in the global emission wars, and it looks like we’re losing. Badly.

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There’s a new foe in the global emission wars, and it looks like we’re losing. Badly.
Fracking, another enemy of our delicate climate. If your kid messes up on a chemistry test, he or she might get a bad grade. If things are really terrible, there might be a make-up class or summer school in the offing. But when the scientists and bureaucrats responsible for reacting to and dealing with climate change screw up their chemistry, we all could all end up paying the price for the foreseeable future.… Read the rest

New report from World Health Organization says environment responsible for one-fourth of all deaths

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New report from World Health Organization says environment responsible for one-fourth of all deaths
Over 12 million people dead each year due to environmental factors There’s an old, not very good joke. One fish says to another: “How’s the water?” The second fish says, “What the hell is water?” Much in the same way, “the environment” by definition is all around us. But like those talking fish in that terrible joke, we often take it for granted.… Read the rest

Alarming Study shows That Smokers And People Who Stay Indoors Avoiding The Sun Have Similar Risk Level For Death

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Alarming Study shows That Smokers And People Who Stay Indoors Avoiding The Sun Have Similar Risk Level For Death
Lay Off That Sunscreen–You’ll Never Guess What Might Be Just As Bad For You As Smoking A shocking new study suggests an outright blasphemy to all the things we’ve been taught about skin health and avoiding cancer: we should be getting more sun, not less. But the findings are too compelling to ignore. The study followed more than 25,500 Swedish women between the ages of 25 and 64 for 20 years, garnering detailed information about their sun exposure habits.… Read the rest

Global Fisheries Are Collapsing–What Happens When There Are No More Fish?

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Global Fisheries Are Collapsing–What Happens When There Are No More Fish?
Shocking Study Shows That 85 Percent Of Global Fish Stocks Are In Trouble–So Are We If This Continues. In the Dr. Seuss book “The Lorax,” the title character, saddened by the destruction of all the truffula trees and the devastation covering the now-barren land “lifted himself away through a hole in the clouds.” One wonders if the global elites have some similar escape plan in mind that they’re not telling the rest of us about.… Read the rest

The DEA Could Change The Nation’s Marijuana Laws As Soon As July

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The DEA Could Change The Nation’s Marijuana Laws As Soon As July
DEA May Finally Reclassify Marijuana–Currently Considered As Dangerous as LSD And Heroin A letter to Senator Elizabeth Warren from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) seems to indicate that the agency is planning to reclassify marijuana from its current Schedule 1 status, a change that could come as soon as this July. The agency said that it could decide whether marijuana should remain at the same level as LSD and heroin by “…the first half of 2016,” which some are reading as an indication the hard-line agency is finally coming around on the reality of marijuana as opposed to ancient, fear-mongering legends about the plant.… Read the rest

Global Warming May Be Far Worse Than Previously Thought

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Global Warming May Be Far Worse Than Previously Thought
Climate Change Projections May Be Way Off: Clouds May Hold The Key A new study seems to indicate that global warming could be far worse than previously thought–all due to a misunderstanding. Previous climate change projections may have been mistaken in terms of the role that clouds play in the warming cycle, and this study shows that they underestimated that role by a huge margin.… Read the rest

Oil Industry Has Known At Least Since The 1960s That Climate Change Was A Serious Threat

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Oil Industry Has Known At Least Since The 1960s That Climate Change Was A Serious Threat
Cover-Up: Oil Industry Docs Suppressed, Climate Change Problems Known Since 1960s A lot of things have happened to the US since 1968. We put a man on the moon, the Beatles broke up, we ended the Cold War, and we invaded Iraq. Twice. Oh yeah, and we were the biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions that raised the Earth’s temperature by a few critical degrees, hastening the dissolution of the icecaps, changing the weather patterns, and raising sea levels.… Read the rest

Buy Organic: Here Are Ten Foods You Should Never Skimp On

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Buy Organic: Here Are Ten Foods You Should Never Skimp On
Avoiding Pesticides and Herbicides: Ten Foods You Absolutely Must Buy Organic By now we have all heard about Monsanto and its anti-environmental, genetically-modified crops. And as horrible as Frankenfood is, what’s possibly even more dangerous about the agri-chem company is the wild overuse of its signature herbicideRoundup. The main ingredient in Roundup is glyphosate, which the World Health Organization has listed as probably cancer-causing.… Read the rest

New study shows that ADHD diagnoses are exaggerated

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New study shows that ADHD diagnoses are exaggerated
Children should be seen, not heard. It’s an old saying, but it speaks volumes about western attitudes toward children. They are often seen as noisy, annoying, impetuous creatures, somehow alien to ourselves and our own experience, despite the fact that we all indisputably were once kids ourselves. It’s also these attitudes that undoubtedly have helped lead to what some are saying is the massive over-diagnosis of ADHD, or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.… Read the rest